The top 5 shortest manager tenures in the Premier League:
1. Sam Allardyce (Leeds United): 30 days 2. Ange Postecoglou (Nottingham Forest): 39 days 3. Les Reed (Charlton Athletic): 40 days 4. Rene Meulensteen (Fulham): 75 days 5. Frank De Boer (Crystal Palace): 77 days
AND now 43 days in charge at Spurs....... in 4th PLACE!! https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/38473235/igor-tudor-sacked-tottenham-boss-relegation/
A club statement read: “We can confirm that it has been mutually agreed for head coach Igor Tudor to leave the club with immediate effect. “Tomislav Rogic and Riccardo Ragnacci have also left their respective roles of goalkeeping coach and physical coach.
Spurs hit a new low on Tuesday with the shambolic 5-2 Champions League loss at Atletico Madrid, where goalie Antonin Kinsky was subbed after 17 minutes following two howlers. Tudor faced calls to be sacked for his handling of the Kinsky situation and after becoming the first Spurs boss ever to lose his opening four matches. But the interim boss, 47, said: “It’s been tough, for sure. Not just because of the last game, but because of the [recent] period and the past. “Like everything in life, you can choose how to see the situation." ????
Ian Henderson(born 24 January 1985) plays for National Leagueclub Rochdale, as a forward but he has also been used in various midfieldroles and has captainedhis club on numerous occasions. Henderson is Rochdale's all-time leading goalscorer (with, as of 8 May 2025, 160 goals in all competitions, including 140 league goals).
Henderson started his career with Norwich City and made almost 70 first team appearances with them before joining Northampton Town in July 2007 following a six-month loan spell at Rotherham Utd. He remained at Northampton Town for 18 months and then played for Luton Town and in the Turkish football league with Ankaragucu, prior to signing for Colchester Utd in January 2010. Henderson hit 11 goals for Colchester United in the 2010–11 campaign, including home and away winners against Rochdale, and then scored again at Spotland for Colchester in October 2011. He scored 26 times in 130 outings for United, but left the club after manager Joe Dunne oversaw a shake-up of his squad earlier in 2013. Henderson was one of the most consistent performers in Rochdale's promotion campaign, missing only one game through suspension and scoring 11 goals, with several Goal of the Season contenders.
Henderson joined Rochdale on a free transfer in February 2013 after being released by Colchester. His performances led to the offer of a two-year contract, a deal which was extended until 2016.
Henderson has played internationally for England four times at under-18 and once at under-20 level, and is also eligible to represent Scotland.
Norwich City:
Born in Bury-St-Edmunds , Henderson was a product of the Norwich City youth academy. He made his debut as substitute against Coventry City at Highfield Rd in a 1–1 draw. He scored his first goal for the Canaries in a 4–2 defeat at Wimbledon on 2 November 2002, and was rewarded with a three-year professional contract at the end of January 2003, ending the season with 22 appearances. Following call-ups to both England Under-18s and Scotland U19s. The 2003–04 season saw Henderson win a First Division championship medal as Norwich won promotion to the Premier League. In November, he scored four goals in five games, including two in a 3–1 victory over Millwall at Carrow Rd – and created a number of goals for other players. He signed a new contract in the summer of 2004 but found it difficult to establish himself in the team, making only a handful of appearances in the two subsequent seasons. His Norwich career suffered a further setback as a result of injuries.
Rotherham United (loan):
On 11 January 2007, after a five-month layoff caused by a knee injury, Henderson was loaned to Rotherham Utd to gain match fitness and experience in a deal at the end of the 2006–07 season. Henderson scored his only goal for Rotherham in their last home game of the season, a 4–2 defeat to Cheltenham Town. He made 18 appearances for the Millers, scoring once. At the end of the season, Henderson was released by the Canaries.
Northampton Town:
Henderson signed for Northampton Town on 28 June 2007. On 27 December 2008, Northampton terminated Henderson's contract with immediate effect after Henderson did not start a game for the Cobblers during the 2008–09 season and he had failed to score in 33 first-team appearances.
Luton Town:
Henderson signed for the club on a short-term contract on 2 January 2009, and went on to make 18 league appearances in the 2008–09 season, scoring once against Dagenham and Redbridge. He was not offered a new contract at the end of the season, and was subsequently released from Luton.
Ankaragücü
Prior to the 2009–10 season, Henderson had a trial with Turkish Super League side Ankaragucu and on 27 July 2009, after a successful trial, signed a two-year contract until summer 2011. He made his debut for the Turkish club in the first league week of the 2009–10 season, coming on as a 59th minute substitute for Abdullah Çetin, in Ankaragücü's away game to Diyarbakirspor on 8 August 2009. After just six months in Turkey, Henderson had his contract with Ankaragucu cancelled.
Colchester United
On 7 January 2010, Henderson signed for the Football League One side on a 1p transfer!! Henderson was sent off on his debut for Colchester United against his former club Norwich City. Henderson finished the 2010–11 season as top scorer for Colchester with 10 league goals and was the only one of United's players to hit double figures, attracting interest from other clubs with his contract set to expire. However, on 10 June 2011, Henderson signed a new contract with the U's. On 31 January 2013, Henderson had his contract with Colchester cancelled by mutual consent.
Rochdale
Henderson playing for Rochdale
After the cancellation of his contract with Colchester he joined Rochdale on a contract till the end of the season. In May 2013 he agreed a two-year extension at Rochdale. Henderson scored the second goal in the club's shock 2–0 FA Cup victory against Leeds United on 4 January 2014. Henderson finished the 2014–15 season with 22 league goals and second highest total in the league that season.
On 23 October 2015, it was confirmed that Ian Henderson had signed a two-year contract extension at Rochdale and would be finishing his playing career at the club, citing a love for the club itself, the management, fans and his desire to settle down in the area.
Salford City
On 29 July 2020, Henderson signed for Salford City, on a two-year deal. On 12 September, he scored inside two minutes on his début against Exeter City. The following week, he scored a hat trick in a 4–0 away win against Grimsby Town, becoming the first Salford player to score ahat-trick in the Football League. His four goals saw him win the EFL Player of the week award. After six goals and an assist in April 2021, Henderson was again awarded the Player of the Month award, his second of the season. He was released by Salford at the end of the 2021–22 season.
Return to Rochdale:
Henderson returned to Rochdale ahead of the 2022–23 season on an initial one-year deal. On 8 November 2022 he became Rochdale's all-time leading goalscorer, scoring against Salford City in a 1–0 home win to surpass Reg Jenkins' long standing record of 129 goals!!!
International career:
Henderson is eligible to play for Scotland through his Scottish father and since he had not played a UEFA recognised competitive match. In May 2003, he was called up to the England U18 squad for a tournament in Lisbon against Portugal, Sweden and Spain Henderson played in all three games and had goals disallowed in the win over Sweden and the draw with Portugal but scored England's first in the 2–0 defeat of Spain that won England the Lisbon Trophy. Following this success, he was called up to the Scottish U19s.
In 1995 around 500 Merseyside dockers working for the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company refused to "cross the picket line" and were sacked. Many were reinstated afterwards but their contracts were vastly changed, so there was a dispute! Robbie Fowler and Steve McManaman were given T-shirts supporting the Dockers and decided to wear them under their Liverpool club shirts during a European Cup Winners Cup tie against Brann.
McManaman advised his team mate NOT to lift his Liverpool shirt if he scored, better to have waited until the end of the game, when a political gesture might be made without controversy.. Some chance!! "I agreed with him 100 per cent" said Fowler "and then went completely mental." Upon scoring his second goal of the evening to seal a 3-0 victory. Fowler pulled up his shirt to reveal a pastiche of Calvin Klein which bore the support "Support the 500 sacked dockers." I pulled down the shirt and ran over to the photographers to have a picture taken!" Staunch work from Comrade Robbie!
Four days later the halo hadn't slipped. During the crucial league match at Highbury, Fowler rushed into the Arsenal penalty area and was upended by David Seaman, or so the referee thought. A penalty wrongly awarded!! Fowler tried to make the official change his mind!.... "it was a bit f***ing dippy, Fowler reminisced, but I have never been a cheat".
Fowler got up and missed the kick, though Jason McAteer followed in the rebound. "I want to congratulate you for your act of sportsmanship," wrote FIFA president Sepp Blatter on March 26th. A day later, UEFA were in touch as well. "It seemed strange and a little unfair..." began the letter FINING Fowler £900 for his "Dockers protest!!" Dated1997.
On March 26th 2008, a 32-year-old David Beckham won his 100th England cap. An LA Galaxy player at the time, his day, perhaps wasn't as memorable as that enjoyed by 'King Kenny'. The 32 year old lasted 63 minutes of what was a disappointing 1-0 friendly defeat in France before being substituted. He wore golden boots against France to mark the occasion and before England's next match - at Wembley - he was was presented with a commemorative gold cap by Bobby Charlton. He was the fifth England centurion at the time after Billy Wright, Bobby Moore, Bobby Charlton and Peter Shilton and went on to increase his cap count to 115.
William Ambrose WrightCBE (6 February 1924 – 3 September 1994) was a centre-back (CENTRE HALF IN THOSE DAYS). He spent his entire club career at Wolverhampton Wanderers. The first footballer in the world to earn 100 international caps, Wright also held the record for longest unbroken run in competitive international football, with 70 consecutive appearances, although that was surpassed by Andoni Zubizarreta's 86 consecutive appearances for Spain(1985–94).He also made a total of 105 appearances for England, captaining them a record 90 times, including during their campaigns at the 1950, 1954 and 1958World Cups.
I have recently been to the Leeds Playhouse to watch a brilliant play, Small Island, centred on the West Indian immigration, around the Second World War, known as the "Windrush" era, telling of the discrimination of West Indians (and others) arriving in Britain. It made me think of Walter Tull, whose story I am sure I have "Blogged" before (around this time in March). Walter and his story deserves another mention and well, here it is. I hope the link works. Walter Tull born 28th April, 1888. Folkestone.
Walter Tull: The incredible story of a football pioneer and war hero. He was born in 1888 to a Barbadian father, Daniel, and English mother, Alice. He bcame the first professional black outfield player, IN THE WORLD! When his parents had died, Tull was packed off to a Kent Methodist orphanage, in 1897, where he quickly made his name as a footballer. In 1908 he was spotted by the amateur side Clapton FC in London, now known as Leyton Orient and a year later was recruited by Spurs from the First Division (the top one at that time).
After a handful of impressive matches for the club, he was dropped following racist abuse from crowds when playing in a match at Bristol City in 1909. "A section of the spectators made a cowardly attack in a language lower than "Billingsgate" (the historic Fish Market in central London, where there was a lot of "bad laguage" afoot daily!), reported The Football Star paper. It was reported "Let me tell these Bristol hooligans that Tull is so clean in mind and method, as to be a model for all White men who play football. Two seasons later he moved to Northampton where he played 110 matches for the club under the legendary, Herbert Chapman (reknowned for his success with the Arsenal club).
Tull's success there brought him a transfer to Rangers, but he never played for the Glasgow giants.
When war broke out in 1914, Tull was one of the first to enlist, joining up with the legendary, 1st Football Battalion and being a bright lad, so earned promotion quickly at a time when a colour bar operated in the higher ranks of the British Army. Tull remained in Italy until 1918, when he was transferred to France to take part in the attempt to break the German lines on the Western Front.
On 25th March he was ordered to lead an attack on their position at Favreuil, where we was shot in the head and died instantly.
After surviving six major battles, Tull was shot in no-mans' land near Favreuil in the Pas De Calais, France. His colleagues tried to drag him to safety but he died instantly. Days later, his brother Edward received a letter telling of this fate, as his commanding officer wrote; "The Battalion and Company have lost a faithful officer and personally, I have lost a friend". UNLIKE the Bristol City fans who had once jeered him, Tull's colour made no odds to his fellow soldiers.
At one stage, Tull was temporary dismissed from service after suffering from “shell shock”, or what is classified as post traumatic disorder. Not being left defeated by the diagnosis, he later returned to the conflict and fought in the Battle of the Somme in 1916.
Sunday, March 23rd1986!! but... there was a SATISFYING Saturday previously, in the English First Division (the old one-remember?), for Chelsea and Manchester City. Chelsea had won 1-0 at Southampton which helped them in the "Title" Hunt. Mid-table City were two goals down at Manchester United, but recovered to a 2-2 draw which severely damaged their arch-rivals chances of winning the First Division "title", the first time since 1967.
Their weekend work was not over however. Less than 24 hours later, BOTH teams would be back at Wembley to contest the first ever, "Full Members' Cup Final". The Full Members' Cup had been set up to fill the void left by the post-Heysel ban on English clubs in Europe. The competition had not been taken too seriously as the scheduling of the Final proved. The Football League’s most embarrassing and ill-conceived competition finished a money spinner at Wembley.
Neither Chelsea nor City had enjoyed a particularly fruitful decade though, as they both had spent time in the "old" Second Division. A day out at the Cup Final was not to be "sniffed" at however as 68,000 turned up at Wembley to see both teams apparently not taking the fixture "too seriously"... March 22nd...end of season...etc. It proved to be a classic!! Loads of money passing through the turnstiles!!
City went ahead after 10 minutes, when Steve Kinsey had scored but Chelsea then ran riot with five unanswered goals...a hat trick for David Speedie and two for Colin Lee. Half time was 2-1 to City. At 5-1, with ten minutes left the game looked done and dusted, BUT in the final stages, City's, Mick McCarthy scored with 6 minutes left...Doug Rougvie then "scored" an own goal (under pressure, no doubt) and then Mark Lillis notched a penalty....but it wasn't quite going to have a fairy tale ending as the game ended 5-4. Both teams played League fixtures just one day before the Final, with City having played in the Manchester Derby.
If football is "dying", said Chelsea manager, John Hollins, "I hope its dying like that!" Chelsea's jubilant fans, caught in the moment, sang of winning the League, though their team only claimed NINE more points from the last 33!! ending the season SIXTH!
City: Nixon, Reid, Power, Redmond, McCarthy, Phillips, Lillis, May, Kinsey, McNab, Wilson – subs Simpson(59), Baker(59). David Speedie nets his second goal on his way to the first Wembley hat-trick in 20 years.
Chelsea:Francis, Wood, Rougvie, Bumstead, McLaughlin, Pates, Nevin, Spackman, Lee, Speedie, McAllister – subs Hazard(unused), Dublin(unused) WORTH LOOKING UP THE "VIDEO" ON www.
Liverpool finished the season as League Champions but their dream of an unbeaten season in the League ended on this day in 1988 after being unbeaten in their first 29 League matches of the season. The team that beat them, inevitably I guess....Everton!
Liverpool won the league title by nine points, and with only two defeats all season. It was the club's 17th title. Second in the league were Manchester United.
The automatically relegated sides were Watford, Oxford Utd and Portsmouth with Chelsea subsequently relegated as well, after losing to Middlesborough in the play off final.
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